New jail cell death inquest scheduled for fall

By Meaghan Archer

(SHANNON QUESNEL / iNFOnews.ca)

May 29, 2014 - 4:11 PM

PENTICTON - A new date is set for a coroner’s inquest of a man who died in a police holding cell nearly two years ago.

Steven Joseph Scott, aged 30, died Aug. 10, 2012 while in locked-up custody at the Penticton RCMP detachment. Inquests — a public presentation of evidence related to a death — are almost always mandatory under the Coroners Act for people who die while in police custody.

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